122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Chemistry Education
Room No. Grand Ballroom
Time 10월 18일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code EDU.P-488
Subject Analysis of modeling process of science gifted students: Focusing on evaluation of model
Authors Sungki Kim, Seounghey Paik1,*
Gwangju Science Academy for the Gifted, Korea
1Department of Chemical Education, Korea National University of Education, Korea
Abstract The education using science modeling as a method of scientific communication and science practice has recently attracted attention in science education. In this study, five students of K gifted school saw the video clip about changes after candle burning. Since then, they have been asked to create their own model that can explain this phenomenon. This study focuses on how to evaluate their models through observations of coincidence or non-coincidence in the process of verifying the models established by the students themselves. As a result of the study, there were two types of cases in the evaluation of the model First, it is a type that firmly keeps the model with firm belief in the model that it establishes regardless of observation fact. The second type had no firm belief in the model it established relatively. So students of this type discarded or modified the model by observing new facts during the verification of the model. The model is not discarded or modified as a single observation case. But there is no absolute science model. The model should always be the subject of evaluation and the discrepancy between the actual experimental results and the model's predictions is important as criteria of the evaluation. While the evaluation of the model should have a balanced view of these two perspectives, the gifted students had only one. Gifted education is aimed at cultivating scientists to create science models in the future. As shown in this study, the gifted students are lacking in scientific competence. In order to become a gifted education capable of cultivating a scientist, we suggested that education on science models including modeling should be directly reflected in gifted education with getting out of the framework of existing accelerated learning.
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